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X.Org Developers Raid The Zoo

09-04-2008, 05:10 PM

Phoronix: X.Org Developers Raid The Zoo

Activities for the second day of the 2008 X Developers' Summit are now over. The day ended with the X developers in attendance receiving a private tour of the Edinburgh Zoo, the venue for this event. The schedule for today's talks that mostly consisted of open-source graphics were also thrown off when the developers decided to visit the Gentoo Penguins...

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Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
-- Linus Torvalds

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One has to wonder if they paid Sir Nils a visit as well (there's a pic of a King penguin in the photos, but I can't tell if it's him or not...).

Yes we did. That one picture is of him (you can tell by the gold armband). Though during his award ceremony a few weeks back, the zoo keeper mentioned to us that it wasn't really that penguin but a stand-in penguin for the day.

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Yes we did. That one picture is of him (you can tell by the gold armband). Though during his award ceremony a few weeks back, the zoo keeper mentioned to us that it wasn't really that penguin but a stand-in penguin for the day.

Didn't know what they'd identified him with- one of my friends had the good fortune to see him doing an "inspection" run over the troops during the tattoo, which is why I'd known about him.